Much as he has done for London, Iain Sinclair here traverses the memory-filled landscape of America to pursue a "psychogeography" of the Beats and their fellow travelers. In his riffing style, packed ...(Read More)

Nearly four decades after his death, John Wayne remains an enduring symbol of 20th-century American masculinity, power, and patriotism. Also the biographer of western stalwarts Clint Eastwood and ...(Read More)

From the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the oil rig, the modern airliner, the MRI machine, and the telephone, here are 76 of the most ...(Read More)

A cherished icon of American craftsmanship and nostalgia for our agrarian traditions, Amish quilts have also become big business, with city galleries selling them for many times their original price ...(Read More)

As we focus on blue whales and Indian elephants and their roles in biological diversity, one cup of seawater contains more than 100 million cells—which in turn are preyed upon by billions of ...(Read More)

The musculature and skeletal structure of the horse, dog, cat, pig, and cow are depicted here in more than 350 finely detailed drawings by Hungarian artist and anatomist András Szunyoghy, with ...(Read More)

More than just an excellent form of exercise, tai chi allows you to relax and rejuvenate your mind and body as you increase your strength, coordination, flexibility, and mental focus. This set ...(Read More)

With his Brillo Soap Pads Box (1964), Andy Warhol successfully demolished the definition of what was and wasn't art. Similarly useless for cleaning up stains on cookware, this pad of notepaper ...(Read More)

Explore the fascinating world of insects and spiders with this set and build your own garden diorama, complete with three-dimensional foliage and a model honeybee, sunset moth, spotted flower beetle, ...(Read More)

Build your own tabletop rainforest with this playset, and populate it with a jaguar, praying mantis, macaw, monarch butterfly, and caterpillar. Presented in a shaped lidded box that opens to become a ...(Read More)

Cats, cats, cats! These four lined journals are covered with different interpretations of frisky felines by animal-loving illustrators, including Geoffrey Martin's realistic portrait of Fred, a ...(Read More)